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The nucleo-mitochondrial conflict in cytoplasmic male sterilities revisited.
Genetica - 1 Jan 2003
Budar Françoise, Touzet Pascal, De Paepe Rosine
Abstract excerpt
Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) in plants is a classical example of genomic conflict, opposing maternally-inherited cytoplasmic genes (mitochondrial genes in most cases), which induce male sterility, and nuclear genes, which restore male fertility. In natural populations, this type of sex control leads to gynodioecy, that is, the co-occurrence of female and hermaphroditic individuals within a population....
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